Hi list,

recently the need arose in our institution to setup a kerberos infrastructure so that users can login on windows machines using their institutional credentials. From what I remember though from a mit kdc deployment I did many years ago, I had to have the user passwords in cleartext in order to create the kerberos principals.

In this instance, user passwords are stored in our LDAP server (OpenLDAP), hashed. All our services currently validate user credentials by attempting an LDAP bind either directly or via another protocol implementation (Shibboleth IdP, FreeRADIUS, Keycloak etc).

So my question is, is there a way to implement kerberos without knowledge of the plaintext passwords, or do we have to somehow capture the credentials during users' login to other services and then sync them to the kdc db?

Thanks,
John
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